The Spirit of Jackass Alive and Kickin?

I preface by saying, I've been away from MTV for a long, long time...

Although Johnny Knoxville has left the hijinx of Jackass, MTV is gratefully reluctant to let go of the weird assortment of talent they had surrounded the turn-of-the-century underground legend with. Yes, Jackass spin-offs have hit the tube and it's a funny thing considering the original show was the exact opposite. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

Breaking up the circus has allowed for some things that worked well on the original series to be fleshed out. The adventures of Steve-O and Chris "Party Boy" Pontius with Manny, a kind of wildlife guide from the So Florida episodes, are turned into a half-assed, tongue-in-cheek nature show. I'm sure this will be said of it ten million times, but it's the Crocodile Hunter if the Aussie gator guru were an actual idiot. There's a bad catch-22 working against the show though, the "Wild Boyz" can't hurt the animals but the animals are totally willing to hurt and/or kill them. So, there's not the same kind of idiotic danger as in Jackass... but, sometimes, it still manages to be funny. When Steve-O had eggs from a dead salmon squirted in his mouth and then salmon semen squirted all over his face, I laughed. Pretty loudly too.

The other show is Viva La Bam. Which I have not witnessed yet, but which presumably follows the Margera family's psychological torture at the hands of Bam Margera. Sundays, I believe, if anyone needs another show to clog up their Sunday evening viewing.